Please read before updating to iOS 26.4

16 pro max. In the US, Il, Chicago. Long live cats.

I am in the south, in south carolina, and no problems either with the update.

Hello,

While some states do have their own age verification requirements, the country as a whole does not yet have this. This is something Apple would have to have put in for the United Kingdom only.

Chris, it's Will!!

you know i live in the UK as well; and for me it just validated with my APPLE Id?

i have been running the betas for a while not just 26,4 and when it came up it just used my Apple ID to verify myself i guess via my birthday?

I just updated to the release candidate and am facing this issue.
Am located in Australia.
I don't have a credit card but do have a debit card and obviously for us blind folks we don't have driving licences so I tried to scan my proof of ID card which didn't seem to work.
Wondering if it would work if I scanned my Mum's driving licence?

I’m not sure if scanning your mom‘s drivers license would work as it would probably have your mom‘s name on it and not your name. I’m guessing the phone would probably be looking for your name on the drivers license so it can verify you. Also, I’m not exactly sure if it would be legal to do that. If you are going to do this, I would recommend asking your mom first.

I think if you have it on on your walletit uses it for checking age. I might be wrong. Long live cats.

Someone above mentioned using their Apple ID to do an age verification. Might want to consider looking into this.

A total pain it was. Especially enterring a phone number. After messing about I finally managed with a credit card but seriously, There should be an easier way of doing this with VO. I think it uses whomever is in charge of payments on your apple account. Hence, some may well manage via their apple id. All a bit of a car crash I'm afraid.

If I recall, it asked for your DOB. It was a long time so do not recall. Like I said, credit info in your wallet could check your DOB. Until iPhone 30 in which a little niddle will come up and get your DNA and open your phone. Long live cats.

Both countries now have content restrictions for under 18s. When Lee brought this up a couple of weeks ago, in response to the release of IOS26.3.1, I commented that if you have a credit card as your apple Pay card, it should be fine. such has been my experience.

Please, do not use someone else's ID - your mum's driving licence, for example, to get round this age verification process. In the UK, this amounts to fraud by false representation, which is a criminal offence. I am as against the Online Safety Act 2023 in its current form as the next man; but nobody on here should encourage anyone to commit a criminal offence so, in all seriousness, do not get round this by passing yourself off as someone else, even if the phone lets you.

This is why I never had issues!!! Cross finger it continues. Long live cats and they do not need to prove their age.

Australia has a system called ConnectID, which is a digital identity service linked to participating banks. It allows you to verify details like your age using information already held by your bank, without needing to create a new account or upload documents.

When you use ConnectID, you’re redirected to your bank to confirm your identity. The bank then securely shares only the specific information required (for example, confirmation that you are over 18), rather than your full personal details.

I'm well and truly over 18, so I'm hoping I don't run into this problem, but I also know how to use the camera, at least for FaceID it works for me quite well.

Hi Chris, it's Craig Slater here. We have met once in the past. First of all, A national ID for us in the UK would be a driving lisence which we can't obviously get or a passport.
I spoke to a member of staff from Apple as I have just ran into the same situation after instaling ios 26.4 and the apple representative told me that a passport would probably be the best option for us blind folk.
Therefore, I will probably end up applying for a passport soon as I need some ID anyway.
You might find it easier to scan documents with your phone's camera by placing the document on a table so that you have both arms free. Sit down at the table and put both elbows on the table so that your hands don't shake while taking the photo.
I hope this helps. ,

I would had thought having a card on your wallet be better! Or apple pay. Apple need to go back to their apple ID and use that. If I recall in creating an apple ID, I share my age. I do not recall. It was a very long time. Since iPhone 4. LLC.

I know where you're coming from holger and IT would make it easier for us blind folk, but Apple are bound by rules set by the British government. also, they have given Companies like Apple a list of the forms of ID that would be accepted. So Apple can’t just use an Apple ID as a verification, although that would be good if they could. Also, Apple can’t use debit cards as some banks issue them to people who are under 18. In fact, I remember having a bank account as a teenager.

Hi,
So earlier tonight I updated my iPhone and iPad to iOS 26.4, and got the same age verification stuff. There doesn't seem to be a way of using your passport, instead the only option is to take a picture of your credit card or add one to Apple pay. My Apple ID is 13 years old, but I saw people posting on Reddit that had Apple IDs over 20 years old, and it verified their accounts based on how long their accounts have been active. I haven't got a credit card at the moment, but I've just applied for one as I could do with one anyway. So after getting rid of the age verification thing and choosing to do it later, my phone and iPad is behaving as normal. I can browse the web on my phone, go on Reddit, and listen to my Audible books on my iPad. I purchased an audio book through the audible sale through the Audible app on my iPad not with credits but with my debit card stored on Apple pay, so I can still purchase stuff through Apple then? So, what can't I do? Is it just not being able to watch porn, or other stuff too? What is considered age restricted content? Does anybody know? Thanks. What I'm saying is, what are the benefits for me of verifying my age at all? If I can do everything I've always done.

I get the sense that anything considered explicit, or NC-17 would not be permissible/viewable on your device without the age verification. This could be books, music, multimedia such as television and movies, even certain video games, and of course certain explicit websites.
Anyone feel free to correct me if this is not accurate.

If a passport is not accepted, what are Apple classing as a national ID? What do they expect those of us who can not get a driving lisence and don't want a credit card to do? They need to be a lot clearer about what they class as a national ID. I also find it interesting that a member of staff from Apple told me that a passport would work but the document on Apple‘s website says a passport won’t work. I also think it’s ridiculous that a passport won’t work because that is often one of the only forms of ID that is accepted in the UK other than a driving license.

It does surprise me that a passport won't work. It is, after all, the document you have to produce for a right to work check.

@Tara as to what you can't now do if you haven't verified your age, I suspect it's one of those things that's going to bite you when you really don't want it to, even if I can't myself think of any specific examples. Hang on, yes I can: how about buying a round of drinks using Apple Pay? You might not be able to do that.

I can understand why debit cards are not accepted. as I've said elsewhere and someone else has said earlier in this thread, plenty of kids have debit cards. a youthful Bingo was issued with a debit card in, I think, 1996, a substantial while before coming of age.

What mext AppleVis will ask us for age confirmation? Nuts. Long live cats.

Just seen a tiktok on this very issue and apparently despite Apple saying they wont work or not give the option to use passports a number of people have tried it and it did work. So maybe worth giving it a go.

A passport is a form of ID.
So why can't you use it as a form of ID? I call BS on that one. Not everyone wants a credit card or needs a credit card. So far, I've been lucky. I haven't been prompted for age verification, but I'm also in my mid-40s, so hopefully, I've dodged the bullet. But we shall see.

Hi all,
Interesting Lee that the passport does seem to work. I think I'll wait for my credit card though. And Chris thanks for the articles. And Bingo you might be right about the round of drinks. I do use Apple Pay to buy alcohol sometimes.

My understanding when you add it to the iPhone, it need to be check by the US, it suppose to take several minutes but not sure. I only know about the good old USA. Long live cats. PS. I need to get my passport.

I'm curious as to why you keep commenting on this thread. In summary, your contribution seems to be: I live in the US so don't have any of these issues - long live cats. Granted, the last one was a bit more intriguing - the US is not old! it's good, but it's not old! Indeed, as countries go the US is barely out of short trousers. In the main, however, that seems to be what you're telling us. we know you live in the US, that the US iPhone user can use their apple Wallet to store their passport (ironic given how so few americans, relative to most other developed countries) actually have passports, and that for now, there is no age verification legislation in the US. Nothing personal and all that, but are you trying to find as many ways as possible to say this issue doesn't affect you? if so, you're doing a reasonable job though you need to work on more original ways of making the point.

Just on the main point of this discussion, of course it shouldn't be a problem for people who have had their Apple account for quite some while. I opened my account with Apple upon receipt of my iPhone 4 in august 2010. So, I'm either of age, or else I was a bloody precocious two-year-old, or both. Maybe I was a bloody precocious two-year-old? I do remember the 1983 General Election, for example, and the longest suicide note in history manifesto...I'd have been 23 months at the time thereof. Thatcher won with a majority of 144 - those were the days! Long live finchley!

I was not aware that you were in charge. If so, OK. Unless Michael sends me an email about it, Also I am free to give my view. It might not be an issue here but it could happen and how others deal with it might help me if it happens. LLC.

Found it in youtube. They are talking about this. The 2 people are blind. If the link does not work, copy and paste in youtube.
Apple’s Age Verification, AI Missteps & Aira Updates
Double Tap - Where blind people talk tech

I was not suggesting that you ought not to be allowed to comment, Holger. I was merely musing on your various contributions which all purport to make exactly the same point in similar, but not identical, ways. If I have been put in charge then all I can say is I was not aware of it, nor did I apply for the role, but I will do my duty and accept this labour of Hercules with good grace. I daresay my CV speaks for itself? Anyway it's great to be onboard. The first change I am making in my new managerial capacity is to forbid you from abbreviating long live cats to LLC. The latter just looks untidy. Kind regards from Bingo, newly appointed Managing Director, applevis. Long live easy tigers. Not urban tigers...no no no, that's a lap dancing club, I believe.

Check the last poste. The people are from England and I think the podcast or video is from them. Found it interesting. Long live cats.

This works quite well if you do have a credit card on your account. It asked me to confirm my age then said all done and that was that. But obviously that's not much help for those who are stuck.

I think ultimately this will prove to be a good thing. Not that I want to verify my age at all, but if I have to then I'd rather do it with Apple and let them verify me for everyone else rather than going through any number of other weird third parties to do it. I guess that's not what this is yet but it might lead to it with any luck.

It worked very well for me. My credit card is already on file. It checked that and was satisfied. I think this is the way the world is going, to be honest. australia introducing a social media ban for those under (is it 16 or 18?) merely led where others are now following. I daresay even the US will have to follow suit eventually.

I am curious if you add your State ID from the US states that allow it, would that also work? IL allow that also. I do not know how to do so, I would like to know. Apple can get our info to confirm via the State ID. LLC.

https://www.tsa.gov/realid

As of last year, we got this lovely new, "Real ID", law in the United States. It's basically a requirement now if you want to fly anywhere, without paying a fine for not having it.
If this age verification ever comes to the US, hopefully we can use our Real ID for that. I've never felt comfortable giving my credit card information to anybody for, "age verification".

Edited because I forgot to post the link

Come on, American chums: we've had to have photographic ID for domestic flights in the UK ever since, erm, the Norman Conquest. Get with it, pals!

"Oy, Bingo! Surely the UK ain't big enough for domestic flights so your point's a load of nonsense and of academic interest only?"

Well that's where you're wrong. I liszt below all domestic flights I have taken within the United Kingdom and dependent territories.

1. London Luton and London Stanstead to Edinburgh (done them both).
2. London Heathrow to Manchester.*
3. London Gatwick to St Helier, Jersey.
4. Birmingham to Edinburgh.
5. London Luton to Belfast.

*indicates a one way trip.

I've also flown from Penzance to St Mary, Isles of scilly, but that was by helicopter and I don't recall needing any kind of ID for that one. It's only 10 minutes or so anyway.

For all those flights I have used my passport. Mrs Bingo, who came with me to St Helier on one of the two occasions I've flown there, and to belfast on the one occasion I have flown there, and back again, incidentally, used her passport for all those flights too, but she also found out that her driving licence would have done just as well.

I believe, meanwhile, that the longest direct flight one can take domestically in the UK is from Bristol to Inverness. That's just over an hour and a half, so enough time to get in a good old grumble about how you have to use photographic ID to verify your age before you can board. Och aye dunnoo!

It's not about requiring photo ID. The US has required photo ID for flights for decades. Real ID is supposed to be a lot deeper than a typical state photo ID. As I understand it, it is a type of identity verification that the US has started doing last year. With that would obviously come age verification as well, which is why I suggested that the US would likely do this, should age verification become a requirement on Apple devices.

In the U.S., we have the option to get a "non-driver's license" license from the Department of Motor Vehicles. For all intents and purposes, these act as I.D.s with the exception of enabling one to drive a motor vehicle.

I have had such licenses since almost forever. They were especially useful in the old days when people cashed a lot of checks and retailer's asked for an official I.d.

These days it even gets me through the TSA lines at airports.

Perhaps similar non-driver license I.D.s are available in other countries?

--Pete

When you make a purchase with Apple Pay, it doesn't know what you're buying, so can't prevent you from buying alcohol or any other age-restricted product. As those purchases are in-person, that's beyond the domain of Apple's age verification obligations.